Weight Loss Books

This is a great book with Harvey at times unleashing his full venom at the medical profession, food industry and fellow dieticians. He is speaking up for the truth and I happen to believe him. Why? Because I have tested and followed the Fit for Life principles myself and they work.

However before reading this book (which I call Fit for Life III), I would advise buying and following the principles laid out in the first two books i.e. Fit for Life and Fit for Life II. They are easier to read, gentler (probably because they were written in partnership with Marilyn!) and cover the essential dietary/lifestyle principles you need to follow.

This book contains exactly the same text word for word as Fit for Life: A New Beginning (apart from the cover is different and the book is physically bigger), so if you want to save yourself some money I would buy that one instead. I would have rated the book 5 stars, if it was not for this point.

The Fit For Life Solution: How To Identify And Successfully Eradicate The Causes Of Pain, Fatigue And Disease -- Now! is a superbly presented guide to a wealth of natural remedies and information on balancing one's diet so as to improve health and well-being. Individual chapters address a range of pertinent issues including the importance of a nutritious diet and faithful exercise regimen, evading life-threatening conditions (including cancer), as well as offering a "participant friendly" program called CARE that involves simple health principles to improve one's look and feel. The Fit For Life Solution is a solid, informationally packed and recommended guide to self-betterment.

this is a really good book. his original fit for life book also has some very good info in it, the diet regimen part of it less so in my opinion. but here he puts it all together, and focuses primarily on the link between diet and disease, using cancer as his main example. it has the feel of a great debunking text, as in, here is the fundamental and unassailable link between diet and health, the food we eat and the illness and disease that follow -- a basic truth that the AMA, FDA and pharmaceutical companies prefer you not see, as they pour billions of dollars of dollars into ads and countless propaganda. and then he shows, like john robbins' diet for a new america, that the paradigm of destruction of the S.A.D. (sad or standard american diet) extends not only to our health but also to pollution and ecological damage on a grand scale. the type of book you should read and then send copies to your friends. cheers, jg

If you are at all interested in learning how to have complete and total control of your own health and how to confidently and easily live a sickness, pain and disease free life this book is definitely for you. In a climate of ever increasing statistics of disease and ill-health the clear and simple ideas of this book are nothing short of a Godsend. Since the medical profession, the single biggest industry in this country, makes the enormous amount of money that it does by the population being and remaining sick and full of disease they would have us believe that living a healthy disease free life is totally beyond our control. Well, thanks to the brilliant, yet extremely simple methods put forth by this author, the reader is able to take his/her health back into their own hands and truly live without sickness pain or worry of most, if not all diseases. The information in this book is as simple and easy to understand as it is groundbreaking. This book could and should change the world and the way people view cancer, sickness, pain and other diseases. The author explains in remarkably common sense and simple terms exactly how to take total control of your health, vitality and weight by using your body's lymph system (which the author explains is the body's garbage collector). He clearly points out that like a car, our body is a machine, a complex living machine and that after a while due to residue of foods we eat, toxins, chemicals and pollutants in foods, spent cellular material, and other wastes our bodies become "silted up" and require an "oil change" so to speak just like our cars do, otherwise sickness plagues us and disease begins to form. Not only is the information in the book groundbreaking and life changing, but the author, Harvey Diamond, who is known for his humorous and entertaining writing style, delights and entertains the reader with a book that I could not put down until I found myself finishing the last page. I recommend this book to absolutely everyone who can read and who desires to be healthy, energetic and disease free and truly feel this book could turn around the entire cancer and disease epidemic in this country and put the power of your own health back into people's own hands where it belongs! Not reading this book is just like turning your back on a pile of gold the size of a mountain. Thank you Harvey Diamond!

Melinda is such a blessing! Her book has helped me seek God first in my journey to weight loss, believe that I can do all things, put action to the Word of God, and watch the weight melt off! I am down 51lbs since June and I am feeling fabulous! I have a ways to go, but what I value the most is learning how to eat right! God Bless you Melinda!

What a great book! Entertaining, encouraging, informative, and most of all - Honest and down to earth. Thanks for making permanent weight control simple

This book will teach you how to transform your thinking about diet, nutrition and exercise. This book was written to help you get to the root of your weight issues. I want to share with the world how just changing my thoughts and behaviors has helped me to lose 76 lb and 19% body fat. Now that I can identify the causes of being overweight, I can controle the effects, and you can to! I now live a healthy life without the issue of weight being a burden and I want you to have the same freedom!

This book is a must-have if you are trying to gain some REAL, USEFUL, insight on weight-loss. I initially tried losing weight on my own, and I have done so, but there are so many additional tips in the book that are making my journey more effective! With Melinda's book, I've lost an additional 10 lbs over the past two weeks, and feel so motivated to continue. Melinda also unveiled some truths underlying myths related to diet and exercise. I have learned how to incorporate healthier alternatives into my diet, which things to avoid, and to keep a journal of the foods I eat. From the meal plans to exercise routines, this book is the key to your success! See for yourself!!!!

I worked on this book with Bob. It is a masterpiece of creativity and will take you into the depths of your subconscious to create transformation. Excursions through the mind, body and soul await you when you utilize the inductions whether you read them from the book or listen to the CDs. Expect changes in your attitude toward food, relationships, and more!!

The lads have done well with this book. Not only do they bring home vocabulary tips, but also the history and underlying fun in talking like a bloodthirsty buccaneer. A trip through its pages'll have you confounding others in no time...

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Shiver me timbers! Ye should be weighin' anchor, raisin' the Jolly Rodger, and plunderin' this tome or ye be a scurvy bilge rat. We need to be helping Cap'n Slappy & Ol' Chumbucket.

Do you have Pirattitude? Learn how to talk like a pirate and bring out your inner Pirate. Witty and funny. Hysterical even. And a little educational, too (but it's not Mark & John's fault). An absolute MUST if you plan to celebrate "Talk Like a Pirate Day" (September 19th). http://www.talklikeapirate.com/ Not too bad for 2 guy who really weren't trying to create a world wide phenomenon - but did.

Ok now an English translation.... Nah. Buy the book and figure it out for yourself. You'll be glad you did.

I laughed at everything in this book! I heard about these guys on the radio last year and had a blast celebrating talk like a pirate day on September 19th. I loved the pirate quizzes and all the fun pirate lingo. This September I look forward to calling my boss "a scurvy bilge rat " and telling him to "dance the hempen jig" and other fine phrases found in, "Well Blow Me Down." I laughed so hard I cried when I read the last chapter where the Pirate Guys dream of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Pure fun!

This book was a easy read, but packed with information. I thought it was put together very well, with the different chapters put together in a way that I will be able to return to it often for reference. This is the first book that I have read in a long time that truly motivated me. Gordon Tessler is on track with his nutrition information. I liked it so much that I also read the Lazy Person's Guide to Nutrition.

I have read many books on the subject of healthy eating, but only a few from a biblical perspective. Tessler's book is an excellant study on the importance of eating right for your health. Whether you read and believe the Bible or not the conclusions are the same as modern research is proving today. A healthy diet must have it's focus on plant foods and not animal-based foods. Tessler does a super job of proving this point from a biblical perspective. It is clear, conciseand easy to understand and is a great "starter"book for those interested in attaining or regaining superior health. For years and years I suffered many health problems. When I made similar changes to the ones mentioned in the book my problems went away. Truely, the diet as stated in Genesis 1:29 is a healthy one! God must have known what He was doing when He gave the original command! Check this one out if you care about your health and not being a statistic to heart disease, cancer or the myriad of other degenerative diseases that abound today!

This book was a God send. I had wanted to know what God's Word had to say about the way Christians should eat in order to maintain health. I wanted to know how to be disease and sickness free. Dr. Tessler has done a excellent and thorough job of searching the scriptures to reveal God's plan for health. He has also dealt with the hard to understand scriptures of the New Testament that seem to say Christians can eat anything and revealed the error of interpretation of modern day biblical scholars. This book is a must read for all who want to obey God and walk in the devine health that He intended for us.

We bought the book after Dr. Tessler made a proper diagnosis of my wife's intermittant low-thyroid condition, something five specialists in three different states were unable to do. These specialists included an endocrinologist, three neurologists, and a general practitioner. Most of these had mistakenly identified her condition as Multiple Sclerosis.

Combining a simple supplement with the Genesis Diet resulted in a near 100% improvment in her condition. To top it off, she's now pregnant, something we've been unable to achieve in six years of trying!

Even so, I remained a scoffer, until my wife began feeding us both according to the Genesis Diet. As a result, I've found tremendous improvement myself, including greater energy, significant reduction in chronic joint pain, and a dissappearance of headaches which had plagued me from time to time.

I'm convinced: We humans simply do NOT eat according to the way our bodies are designed to process food. Following the Genesis Diet has restored to our bodies the harmony of proper nutrition, much of which you simply won't find in any modern nutrition manual.

We have tried about 8 recipes so far in this cookbook, and to my surprise, they have all be excellent. In addition to healthy, they are very easy to make, and it's amazing how simple it is to change up a few things to make a normal dish even healthier.

I found out about this book when I was googling for a "greek chicken" recipe. It looked interesting so I got the book out of the library. It is so fantastic - SO many recipes are very appealing and it is very well written. I'm placing my order today. I have lots of cookbooks and love getting recipes off the web but can totally see this book becoming my "go to" source for most meals.

Healthy Eating can prevent cancer deaths, which is why the American Cancer Society is involved with the publication of The Great American Eat-Right Cookbook, a gathering of over a hundred tasty recipes paired with color photos. From Poached Salmon with Mango Salsa to Pepperonhi Tortilla Piza and Mushroom-Barley Soup, the collection surveys the basic elements of healthy eating, then provides jazzy, innovative new dishes to support healthier habits. Any general-interest collection strong in cookbooks and health will want this.

I can't say enough about this new healthy cookbook. The instructions are clear, the recipes are easy, and the results are amazing! I particularly like that the book lays flat--so I can keep it open while I'm cooking. And the bottom line is, I can put great tasting, healthy food on the table for my husband and children--without them suspecting that it's healthy for them. My goodness, even the french fries recipe is better than anything you'll find in a bag! Anyone who can make-over a french fry is tops in my book!

I had never tried rattatouille--or however you spell that--but the movie inspired me to try it. And all I can say is WOW!!!

Having had chronic allergies since childhood, I constantly look for information that may lead to relief from my allergies. In December 2000 I read a draft of this book and decided to give some of the recommendations a try. At that time I was taking one allergy pill a day. Now, five months later, I take on the average two to three pills a month, and additionally I feel better overall. Definitely worth a read.

After reading Dr. Uy's book and following his recommendations, I am presently experiencing my best month of May in 20 years. Typically during hay fever season, I need a variety of prescription medications to breath comfortably. This year has been different. I have not felt the need to take any pills or sprays. I hope this book helps those who read it, as much as it has helped me.

This book, is interestingly written with a scientist's personal point of view. He gives many easy to implement tips that he has found useful by chronicling his own battle with allergies. I have horrible allergies and used to start each day with nosebleeds and nose blowing unless medicated. After following his suggestions on sleeping, caffeine and drinking, I can usually have an allergy free day. I found William Uy's book to be unique in that it takes a whole new approach to allergies, one that suggests you can help your body heal from allergies instead of relying on medications only.

After reading Dr. Uy's book and following his recommendations, I began to experience relief within one month. I am breathing freely, after suffering with sinus and allergy symptoms for the past 20 years. I am presently enjoying springtime medication-free without headaches or sinus congestion. I am very happy to have found something that works for me.

This is a well written book.. written by a Doctor who is a specialist in the field of weight problems, who has appeared on TV regularly. More importantly she has helped people I know to lose weight and, far more telling, to keep the weight off with a common sense diet plan that works!

This book is written in everyday language for adults and children. In a country with obesity and anorexia so common, it's refreshing to have a down-to-earth explanation of what stresses a teenager (or pre-teen) faces, and a kind approach to working with some of these challenges.

One doesn't suddenly start eating a "perfect diet". We are, at times, fast food consumers, and Dr. Cederquist understands this, and opens your eyes to the healthier choices available at McDonalds, Arbies, Burger King, KFC, etc. She give concrete examples of healthy choices for many items from the grocery store, in selecting cereals, pizza, fish, desserts, lunch meats, potato chips etc., so one doesn't go into withdrawal!

Start, gradually, by following a more balanced diet in a day with less fats and sugars, and portion control. Read the food labels. Learn the calories in foods, with your children, then make healthy choices! Perhaps keep journals on food, often overlooked emotions, excercise, when helpful, and see the progress, and occasional fall backs. If the less healthy food's out of the home, it's not eaten!

When you and your child learn and actually use these facts and hints, it's easier to plan for success, avoid binges, eating out of boredom or from worry, etc., and still enjoy eating, only it's now with a healthier approach.

Today, start long lasting healthier habits, one page at a time, one simple day at a time.

Help your child eat wisely, live longer, (and perhaps get teased less), with this book's easy-to-follow directions.

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The first step in helping an overweight child is not the introduction of a new diet, says Dr. Caroline J. Cederquist, a family physician and national spokesperson on weight management. Instead, ýtell your child that she is okay, no matter what she weighs. Say it loud and often. . . . Let [your child] know that children come in many shapes and sizes, and none of them is inherently wrong. Your child is more important than what she weighs!ý

Solid emotional support is a crucial foundation, says the author of Helping Your Overweight Child, because the psychological and emotional stresses of obesity can be just as tough on kids as the physiological consequences. Thatýs why she recommends that kids old enough to write should be urged to start keeping a journal, so that they can become aware of how they may use food inappropriately to deal with stress while they are still young. After all, our excuses and rationalizations get more sophisticated as we grow older!

While providing a concise and basic overview of all the health fundamentals, including a survey of ýNutrition 101ý and the obvious arguments for displacing TV-watching with exercise, Dr. Cederquist revisits psychological concerns often ý including the dynamics of family communication and suggestions for coping with an overweight childýs tendency to binge or relapse along the path to better health. Along the way she dispenses helpful tips on environmental factors, such as restricting dining areas to a well-kept dining room or kitchen out of earshot of televisions and video games, and serving food from the stovetop in single portions so that second helpings are always farther than an armýs reach.

And while the author provides about twenty pages of healthy recipes for kidýs favorites prepared in the home, she also faces the modern reality of childhood eats in America by providing complete nutritional breakdowns of all the foods served at junk food palaces like McDonalds, Wendyýs, and Dennyýs, as well as standard grocery-store offerings. In each case, she lines up her ýbetter choicesý (1 serving of Annieýs Shells and Cheddar: 280 calories, 4 grams of fat) ýas compared toý the usual, unhealthier suspects (1 serving of Kraft Deluxe Macaroni and Cheese: 300 calories, 10 grams of fat).

At a concise 158 pages, this is a guide that will not overwhelm concerned parents with too much information while providing them with a serious but not overly stern guide to changing childhood eating habits. Since those habits are very likely to be rooted in psychological and environmental factors that influence the whole family, what proves to be healthy for the overweight child will likely benefit his or her siblings and parents as well.

As an academic child and adolescent psychiatrist, studying the problems of weight in children and youth, I have been very frustrated to find limited smart and clear materials for families and practitioners.

Dr. Cederquist has the very rare brilliance to know vast amounts of material and to make it practical and clear.

Good luck to anyone who tries to improve on this work!

Combination Physician, Master Teacher & a Writer like this one come around rarely.

James L, Schaller, MD, MAR, PC, DABPN, DABFM

Helping Your Overweight Child: A Family Guide is a straightforward guide written for parents, to help the family better understand the causes of weight problems in children, basic facts about good nutritional and exercise habits, and serious, practical lifestyle changes that the entire family can make for the improved health of all members. Written by an experienced professional doctor board certified by the American Board Family Practice and the American Board of Bariatric Physicians, Helping Your Overweight Child presents professional expertise for the lay reader not only the form of information, but also in hands-on useful material such as sample sheets for eating and exercising goals, emotion journals, comparisons of nutritional value/fat content in many brand-name food products and kid-friendly nutritional recipies. Helping Your Overweight Child is very highly recommended to conscerned parents and care providers seeking to assist overweight or obese children toward a more age and height appropriate and healthy weight.

After many years of going from one diet to the next I had completely given up any hope I had of being at my ideal weight. I've been dieting since I was 10 and I tried everything from very low-cal diets to trying to unlock the emotional reasons for overeating. No matter how hard I tried nothing seemed to work--in fact I was heavier than ever. On a whim I picked up a copy of Jean Antonello's book and for the first time in my life I felt as if I understand the reasons behind my weight problem and how to break out of the viscous cycle that has kept me there.

Antonello explains how it is really a basic physiolgical reason that drives us to overeat which has kicked in due to our determinations to diet. I think that many people in a similar situation as mine will find immediate relief from this book. From this book people, like me, will realize that they do not have some emotional or genetic defect that is keeping them fat and neither are they lazy or weak willed. Once you begin to eat according to your body's own needs your preoccupation with food and your weight will disappear. That alone is something to celebrate, but on top of that with time you will have the naturally lean body we were all meant to have. It takes time because it is not some quick fix. But it will feel like the most natural thing in the world. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who has ever struggled with their weight.

If you need help with your weight do yourself a really big favor and buy this book. I am not really a good writer and have a hard time putting into words how much this book helped me. I lost 60 lbs, very easily, after reading this book and have kept it off for 3 years and counting. So simple! The book just made sense to me and was a wonder. Truly an anti diet book. Trust me on this one. I wish they would bring it back in print. I learned so much from this little book and am so thankful that I stumbled upon it.

This is an amazing book, better than Intuitive Eating, Overcoming Overeating, and all the other anti-dieting books, because it proposes a completely physical explanation of how dieting makes you fat. I like those other books, but I never really bought the idea that my deep-seated emotional issues are causing me to overeat. This book explains very logically how restricting food stresses the body and causes it to react by overeating. I've read a million anti-dieting books, and expected this to be just another rehash of the same ideas, but it was a real life-changer for me. I just wish the title didn't make it sound like just another diet book, because it's really much more than that.

This book really opened my eyes. It enabled me to eat whenever I get hungry and feel good and be thin all at the same time. It's not a diet - it's all about listening to your bodies signals.
If you've been stuck in the world of dieting - starving yourself or food-obsession or so-called "overeating" - it will teach you how to let your body take control and become the thin person you're able to be. It teaches you how the body works and how, for many people, your body has adapted to store fat for the next possible famine (your self-created famine, called a "diet") AND best of all, how to change your ways so that your body will adapt to a world with unlimited food availability and stop storing fat - oui-la! a thin body. This book is out of print and people are still buying it and following it. It was written in 1991 and I'm writing this in 2002!

I Just ordered this book. I have a copy of chapter 2,and was very impressed. I am very lucky to have the coarthur as my theripist. The information on nutrition is great. The whole food approach is wonderful. All you have to do is count the foods you ate. No calorie counting.

The only secret in this book is how the system works on paper instead of verbally from meetings. There are no revolutionary or radical concepts here, just plain sense and common knowledge.
Sometimes it is helpful just to have what you already know about a subject restated to get a different view. The information in this book is collected and organized in a way that you can use it. There are no radical diets and the use of exercise is just as important as diet.... There are a few Appendixes and some menus.

This is a good book or should I say manual on the regimen. A few acquaintances were on it and it does work. As every other diet plan ever conceived you have to follow it to get results. That's the bottom line. This is one of the more effective regimens that I am familiar with and it does work. There are no frills, just proven basics here.

This is the best book on weight loss I have read. It is not only for weight loss but Jenny Craig gives you tools on how to manage weight. The more responsibility you take for creating your healthy lifestyle the more control you have and the better chance you will have for success. Jenny encourages you to write your thoughts, record your goals, and outline your strategies. You can chart your journey--see where you've been and where you are going. Your success comes from within

Written by certified personal trainer Elliot Young, Kiss Dieting Goodbye: Embracing a Whole New Way to Lose Weight explains why "quick fix" dieting doesn't work - and what truly does. Kiss Dieting Goodbye teaches the reader how to accomplish long-term positive transformations. Tips, tricks and techniques for portion control, embracing a more active lifestyle, healthy recipes, true stories and much more make Kiss Dieting Goodbye a "must-read" for anyone tired of starving themselves only to see all the weight they lost come right back.

Personal Trainer, Elliott Young writes with balance and insight about the roller coaster of dieting. January is a perfect time to change into a healthy lifestyle. This book promotes a careful balance between eating nutrient-rich foods and learning about portion control along with a practical look at exercise and asking God's enabling.

Young uses KISS as a lifestyle acrostic for weight loss and weight maintenance:
Kardio: carviovascular exercise
Intake: Ingest fresh food
Strength: strength training
Spirit: spiritually grounded weight loss

This book is loaded with easy-to-apply information. I recommend it.

I really enjoyed reading "Kiss Dieting Goodbye". There are so many dieting books on the market and so many diets out there it makes your head spin. Most of them don't even work. It's refreshing to read a book with a sensible, practical and spiritual approach to dieting. "Kiss Dieting Goodbye" is written in a light, positive style with easy, healthy recipes, a lot of information and good advice to move anyone toward and more active, healthy and skinnier lifestyle.

I'm not one to adhere to "diets" but this book provides an
accessible framework to getting healthy and fit.
It's also very refreshing to find a spiritual element in this genre.